Una (Himachal Pradesh), Nov 22 : Hardly any trader is buying potatoes in this Himachal Pradesh town this season owing to the cash crunch after demonetisation of high-value currency notes. Normally, potatoes here sell like hot cakes."There is hardly any wholesaler or agro commodity trading house to buy potatoes in this area. Most of the farmers have been forced to sell the produce at rates almost less...

district by 'cow vigilantes' has found that the cow being skinned by the Dalits, was killed by lions.village in Una taluka, the CID-Crime officials said they have learnt from eye-witnesses that the cow was killed by lions on the intervening night of July 10 and 11., who is supervising the probe, lions had killed four cows near Mota Samadhiyala that night.village near Mota Samadhiyala and three other...

Una (Gujarat), July 22 : Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday met Dalits who were thrashed by members of a Hindu "cow protection group" and blamed the Gujarat government for their misery.After meeting the four victims at the Civil Hospital here, Kejriwal told the media: "The culprits must get such punishment that it should shake them to the core. An example must be set."He said the Gujarat...

Una (Gujarat), July 21 : Former Union Minister Praful Patel, who also visited the Dalit family in Gujarat where four boys were beaten up, on Thursday announced an assistance of Rs 2 lakh for them, terming it a small assistance from him and his Nationalist Congress Party (NCP).He suspected a larger conspiracy behind the state-wide violence that erupted over the last week to damage the social fabric...

Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Thursday visited the home of a Dalit man in Una whose four sons were brutally flogged on July 11 for skinning a dead cow and announced assistance of Rs 5 lakh for the family.Gandhi, who flew in to Gujarat in the morning, drove straight to the house of Babubhai Sarvaiya in Samadhiyala village of Una and spent 40 minutes with the family. He also had tea with them.Gandhi...

(Saurashtra), July 21 : Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Thursday visited the home of a Dalit man whose four sons were brutally flogged on July 11 for skinning a dead cow and announced assistance of Rs 5 lakh for the family.Gandhi, who flew into Gujarat in the morning, drove straight to the house of Babubhai Sarvaiya in Samadhiyala village of Una and spent 40 minutes with the family.Gandhi was...

vice-president Rahul Gandhi met the family members of the Dalit men, who were thrashed for allegedly killing a cow earlier this month, here today."In Mota Samadhiyala, Una to meet the family members of the Dalit youths who were so brutally assaulted," he tweeted.The Congress vice-president also informed that Balu Bhai, the father of the Dalit youths, was also beaten up mercilessly during the incid...